Kali Nicole Gross

Kali Nicole Gross is a Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is also the National Publications Director for the Association of Black Women Historians, 2019-2021, and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Her expertise and opinion pieces have been featured in press outlets including Vanity Fair, TIME, The Root, BBC News, Ebony, HuffPo, Warscapes, The Washington Post, and Jet. Her award-winning books include, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910, winner of the 2006 Leticia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, and, Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America, winner of the 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction. Her latest book, co-authored with Daina Ramey Berry, is A Black Women’s History of the United States.

Her numerous grants and fellowships include the prestigious Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 2007 and 2000, and the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, hosted at Princeton University in 2001-2002. She was selected to be a Public Voices Fellow for The Op-Ed Project, 2014-2015.